Denver has beautiful historic neighborhoods, each with an unique shopping district and personality. Your guided tour will begin with a stop at a retail marijuana shop (or bring your own). All our limos are stocked with water, sodas, and gourmet snacks. Alcoholic beverages upon request. Marijuana smoking is allowed in the limo.

Larimer Square is an area as rich in history as it is in fine shopping and dining. It is the Mile High City’s oldest and most historic block.

The history of what we now know as Denver goes back to the 19th century land claims. In 1858, Colorado was born as news of gold spread east. Green Russell and a party of Georgians made the first gold strike that summer. They settled at the point where Speer Boulevard crosses Larimer Street today and called their camp Auraria. Soon another group arrived and set up town stakes across the creek and called their settlement St. Charles (about where the Granite building now stands on the corner of 15th and Larimer Streets). Then most of the second group went back to Kansas during the winter to register their township and stock up on provisions to return in the spring.

Just after their departure, another group from Kansas arrived at St. Charles headed by General William H. Larimer Jr. He liked what he found and immediately staked out a town for himself as he sent his sidekicks off to Leavenworth. They arrived before the original St. Charles representatives and “jumped” the claim, renaming the town site Denver City after James Denver, the territorial governor of Kansas. The main street was named after General Larimer. Larimer and his son constructed a 16-foot by 20-foot cabin shortly after they arrived. The down-to-earth General had an interesting sense of humor; the doors to his cabin were coffin lids! Also, his cabin had the only “glass” window in Denver.

The Old South Gaylord Shopping District is the second oldest shopping district in Denver. Old South Gaylord St., was founded in 1924. It was a cable car turn-around for the Denver City Tramway Company until the 1950’s when the streetcars were replaced with buses.

The Old South Pearl Shopping District, located on several blocks of South Pearl St. It is a favorite shopping destination of many Denverites. In June of 1893, the Denver Tramway Company extended it’s trolley car line from Alameda to Jewell Avenue along South Pearl Street. A few years later, tracks were completed south to Evans and then east to service the growing University of Denver. The University of Denver quickly became known as Tramway Tech and the building boom was on.